ICL TEAMS

The inaugural season for the Indian Cricket League will kick-off with 6 club teams.

These are:

Mumbai Champs:


Chennai Superstars:


Chandigarh Lions:


Hyderabad Heroes:


Kolkata Tigers:


Delhi Jets:

ICL 20:20 Indian Championship

Via: IndianCricketLeague.in


The inaugural season of the Indian Cricket League (ICL) will host a 20:20 tournament. Fans will brace the exciting competition which will comprise of twenty matches, with the final on December 16.

What is 20:20?

It is a trimmed down version of One Day Internationals in which each team bats for a maximum of only 20 overs. This type of game has been popular in English amateur cricket since 1960s.

A 20:20 game is completed in about three hours. Each innings lasts approximately 75 minutes. This format brings a cricket match closer to the time span of other immensely popular team sports such as football.

20:20 tournaments make cricket more lively and increase the attraction of the spectators at the ground and viewers on television towards the sport. Initial response to this format of the game has been very successful. The 20:20 format is not intended to replace other forms of the game like Test cricket and One Day Internationals and these will continue to coexist side by side

History of ICL

The ICL has not even started but already commands a fair share of history.
So how did it all start?


Zee Telefilms (part of Subhash Chandra promoted Essel Group) bid for the telecast rights of the 2003 World Cup and even though their bid was the highest, it was unsuccessful. Mainly because Zee didn't have a televised Sports channel at that time. Thus was born - Zee Sports.

Zee Telefilms again bid for the telecast rights in 2004 and the whole thing ended up in a never-ending court battle. Subhash Chandra was not to be bogged down and last March he bid again for the 2006-10 rights and once again lost.

Thus was conceived the Indian Cricket League.
'If you can't buy content....create your own content' - was the mantra.

Zee Telefilms partnered with IL&FS to create this new league which would have a prize money of $1 million for the winner.

ICL was set up with a Rs 100 crore budget and would initially comprise of six teams and would be expanded to 16 in three years. This might be a little difficult with IPL slated for a massive launch next year.

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Welcome to ICL2008.com!

This should be your one stop destination for Live Scores, Live Commentary, Match Previews and Reviews and a hell lot of fun!

Well what is ICL?

Over the next few posts we'll be introducing the basic format and teams to you.

The Indian Cricket League (ICL) is a proposed private cricket league that will run parallel to the existing cricket league managed by Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The format of ICL is currently Twenty20.

Venue:
Tau Devi Lal stadium in Panchkula, a place near Chandigarh will be hosting the ICL for this season. This stadium has 20,000 seating capacity and ICL is planning to lease this stadium for 10 years.